The Right of
Aesthetic Realism
to Be Known

The Right Of (TRO) is the international periodical of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, published since 1973. It explains what is happening in the world, and in people—in you. It contains essays, poems, and lectures by Eli Siegel and articles by Aesthetic Realism teachers and students. In every issue there is an editorial commentary by Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education. With scholarship and humanity, she has continued Mr. Siegel’s work, together with many others. Please note: As of April 2025 The Right Of has become a monthly periodical. That is: a new issue will appear every month.

Current Issue

Everyone’s Deepest Desire

Issue #2159, April 9, 2025

Ellen Reiss, editor

Ellen Reiss is the Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education, appointed by Eli Siegel. The editor of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, she also teaches the professional classes for Aesthetic Realism consultants and associates….more

The Arts

“Aesthetic Realism sees the purpose of art as, from the beginning, the liking of the world more…”

Teaching Method

The success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method in having students learn to read and write—learn science, social studies, art, every subject—and be kinder, less angry.

Literature & Poetry

Discussing many great works of poetry and prose. Criticism, wrote Eli Siegel compactly, is showing “a good thing as good, a bad thing as bad, and a middling thing as middling.”

Love

Aesthetic Realism describes the purpose of love—”to like the world honestly through another person.” What does this mean—and what interferes with it in the lives of men and women today?

Mind

The way Aesthetic Realism sees mind differs from every other approach in the importance it gives to how an individual sees the world.

Aesthetic Realism Itself

Read Eli Siegel’s explanation of Aesthetic Realism as a study in three parts:
1. Liking the World;
2. The Opposites; and
3. The Meaning of Contempt.

Archive

Listing of all issues of TRO online.